San Bernardino killers were radicalized ‘for some time,’ FBI reveals

The San Bernardino shooters had been radicalized for “some time” and visited a shooting range mere days before their horrific attack.

The San Bernardino shooters had been radicalized for "some time" and visited a shooting range mere days before their horrific attack, the FBI said Monday.

Both Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik harbored extremist views, calling into question earlier reports that the bloodthirsty bride had spearheaded the assault, the FBI's assistant director of the Los Angeles office, David Bowdich said.

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"As the investigation has progressed we have learned that both subjects were radicalized and have been for some time," Bowdich said in a press conference.

The latest development called into question earlier reports that the bloodthirsty bride from Pakistan, who married Farook in August 2014, was the one who turned him to terrorism.

Authorities are investigating relatives of Tashfeen Malik (left) and Syed Farook following the couple's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif.. (AP)

Investigators also determined that the couple went to shooting ranges around Los Angeles, including once "within days" of the massacre at Inland Regional Center that left 14 of Farook's colleagues dead.

John Galletta, a firearms instructor at Riverside Magnum, where Farook trained, said the killer had appeared to be a "normal guy" while taking target practice indoors.

John Galletta is a gun instructor who works at Riverside Magnum, where Farook and his wife trained. (Nancy Dillon/New York Daily News)

“It’s absolutely brazen to come in and practice to commit such a heinous crime,” Galletta said. “They’ve shot shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement.”

The range has been busier than ever in the wake of the attacks.

People are eager to learn how to protect themselves with guns, Galletta said.

Inside the home of the San Bernardino shooters

"These people, contrary to popular belief, are not training in those ... terrorist training camp videos. They're training among us in our own back yards," he said.

At least six people wounded in the massacre remained hospitalized, two in critical condition, officials said.

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Farook, 28, and Malik, 29, were killed in a shootout with cops.

In a disturbing twist, authorities revealed that a year before the rampage, Farook's co-workers at the county health department underwent "active shooter" training in the same conference room where he and his wife opened fire.

It was unclear if Farook himself attended the session held for members of the department's environmental health division. Farook worked for the department as a restaurant inspector at the time, county spokeswoman Felisa Cardona said.

One survivor said that when the pair opened fire colleagues tried to do as they had been trained — find cover and stay quiet.

A screengrab of an MSNBC report shows the identification of a woman named Rafia Farook, who was believed to have lived with her son and daughter-in-law. (MSNBC)

"Unfortunately the room just didn't provide a whole lot of protection," said Corwin Porter, assistant county health director.

Meanwhile, Mohamad Abdullahi Hassan, who went by the name Mujahid Miski and used Twitter to call for an attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest this past May in Garland, Tex., is believed to have contacted Farook and Malik, KTSP-TV reported.

Hassan surrendered to Somali authorities Nov. 6, officials in the U.S. State Department announced Monday.

The Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency took him in to custody in Mogadishu, said State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala.

Officials at the U.S. mission to Somalia are in talks with the Somali government, but the U.S. doesn't have an extradition agreement with Somalia. It wasn't immediately clear why his arrest wasn't disclosed earlier.

The U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, which has charged Hassan with several counts of terrorism, declined to comment.